Hello, my dark darlings. I'm Marquia. And this is the Something Scary Podcast.

To our veteran listeners and those voyaging into the dark with us for the first time, welcome.

Today's stories come to us out of the arid wastelands of the desert.

Not many things can survive out there in the flat heat, but the things that do, thirst for life and

connection. First, I'll tell the story of a terrible monster harassing a young girl.

Next, we'll take a bus ride into Mexico and notice some strange things along the way.

After that, we'll learn of a famous palace in Egypt which houses souls of the dead.

And finally, we'll sneak out to a well in Yemen and encounter a mysterious woman.

We receive hundreds of creepy stories submissions every single week. As always, the first story you

hear is one that we've chosen to animate and post over at youtube.com slash snarled.

Then I read a few more stories for the podcast. If you have a tale you're dying to share,

send me an email at somethingscaryatsnarled.com. And if you'd like to support the show and receive

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The Thing. The monsters and our dreams and in our lives come in all shapes and sizes. The

creature under our bed. The shadow beyond the reach of the street light. No matter what we call them,

all of them are the Thing. Based on a story shared to us by Ella, the thing started coming for us when

I was young. Some of my earliest memories were of its widening grin and long arms hovering over

my mom. It fed off her pain night after night. Over time, the towering thing started feeding off

my pain too, as hot, foul, breath, working at me. As it pushed me aside if I tried to help my mother.

The Thing that haunted the halls of our home had to be defeated, hiding under blankets, hoping

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